I recently wrote a blog post on how to relate to someone going through depression. If you have a friend or family member or someone close that you love going through depression and you don't know how to help them, read this post and it may give you some ideas.
However, if YOU are the one going through the depression, I would like to share with you some ways that have helped me endure it. I would say I have probably been suffering from chronic depression a majority of my life, with long periods of it on and off starting all the way back in 6th or 7th grade. It can be seriously emotionally, physically, and spiritually debilitating. Depression is not just having a bad day or bad week; it's a deep seated feeling of hopelessness and despair that you just can't shake no matter what is going on in your life. It's a sense that you are in this black hole that you will never get out of and there will be no relief. If it wasn't for my faith and my relationship with Christ, I don't think I would be here today and the depression would have conquered me. But, thanks to the redeeming love of my Savior, here I stand, still here, still fighting, one day at a time.
Here are a few things that I do that really help me when dealing with my depression, and maybe they will help you too.
